Installed Jaiku Mobile Beta, played with the menu in the order that made sense to me, and basically felt I would rather do my calculus.
For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to post Jaiku messages, or read my contact’s posts for that matter. There is something called “Presence,” the mystery of which I have yet to resolve.
Most of the functionalities seem to revolve around location-based services (GPS, locating friends “near” you, etc.). Take a peep at your coordinates, and I won’t be surprised if it scares the hell out of you. Someone need to assure me that these coordinates are not sent automatically to Jaiku.
In fairness, I didn’t read the user manual (C’mon, would you?) And, this is in Beta. Hopefully some sense come out of it in the final release.
They do have a kick-ass website. There is still hope.
By the way, in case your interested, which you’re probably not since I’m as interesting as a taco shell, my jaiku username is chette.
I use Jaiku and I am disappointed. It is definitely not yet a twitter replacement, even if they want it to be so. Design looks great, but they forgot about usability. Hard to figure out what to do next.
Chette, based on screenshots I see that you have tried Jaiku Mobile for S60 2nd ed phones.
Jaiku Mobile Beta for S60 2nd ed is a very early prototype – it’s based on research client and thus UI is not polished and is confusing.
Jaiku Mobile for S60 3rd ed (N-Series, E-series and a bunch of other models) is also in Beta phase, but is much more polished and easier to use.
We will implement newer Jaiku Mobile version also for S60 2nd ed some time in future (during summer)
Take a peep at your coordinates, and I won’t be surprised if it scares the hell out of you. Someone need to assure me that these coordinates are not sent automatically to Jaiku.